Background
Shubha was born in Ludhiana, Punjab to Doctor Rajpal Phutela and Santosh Phutela. Her father is scientist/professor in microbiology. Her mother retired as a teacher.
Shubha was born in Ludhiana, Punjab to Doctor Rajpal Phutela and Santosh Phutela. Her father is scientist/professor in microbiology. Her mother retired as a teacher.
She was crowned Hair-o-max Mission South India 2010. She starred in the Tamil film Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey that was released in 2012. She has an elder sister and a younger brother.
Her elder sister is married to an Information Technology professional and is settled in United States. Her younger brother is doing his Bachelor"s degree in engineering.
As a child, Shubha was very sheltered and studious. In her own words,
My aim of life then was to study, come home, watch television Watching television was one of the things that I always rejoiced, watching all the saas-bahu serials with my mom and rounding off the day with some teen shows.
After school, she joined Dayananda Sagar College, Bangalore to do her graduation in Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science. Shubha compered an event "Coffee with Chief Executive Officer" where she hosted Suhas Gopinath as the guest.
Later they were dating.
They jointly gave an interview for the deoxyribonucleic acid newspaper on Page 1 meets Page 3. Modelling happened by chance. While shopping at the mall, she heard about a small pageant happening there.
She has been the face of some of the top brands like Fastrack, Honda City, TVS Scooty, Kingfisher, Britannia, Fly Mobile et cetera
She has done print ads for various textiles and jewellery brands like Nalli Silks, Rasi Silks, Kalyan Jewellers (Coimbatore), Kannika Parmeshwari Silks et cetera She was on the cover page of March 2011 Femina"s BUYOLOGY, Bangalore Supplement.
Shubha has walked the ramp for designers including Raj Shroff, Michele Salins, Ramesh Dembla, Anu Nagappa et cetera Shubha"s debut film, Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey released in July 2012.
She spent two months learning Tamil for this movie.
She also opted out of a Kannada film as the producers of her debut film required exclusive dates. The songs of the movie have been appreciated by the critics and the public alike. Phutela died on 22 October 2012 at the Apollo Hospital in Bangalore.
According to a report by The Times of India, she was suffering from a kidney ailment which she chose only to reveal to a small number of people.
She was in a state of coma for the last few days.